CVE-2021-47243

HIGH

Linux Kernel 4.19-4.19.195 - Out-of-bounds Read in TCP Option Parser

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sch_cake: Fix out of bounds when parsing TCP options and header The TCP option parser in cake qdisc (cake_get_tcpopt and cake_tcph_may_drop) could read one byte out of bounds. When the length is 1, the execution flow gets into the loop, reads one byte of the opcode, and if the opcode is neither TCPOPT_EOL nor TCPOPT_NOP, it reads one more byte, which exceeds the length of 1. This fix is inspired by commit 9609dad263f8 ("ipv4: tcp_input: fix stack out of bounds when parsing TCP options."). v2 changes: Added doff validation in cake_get_tcphdr to avoid parsing garbage as TCP header. Although it wasn't strictly an out-of-bounds access (memory was allocated), garbage values could be read where CAKE expected the TCP header if doff was smaller than 5.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (14)
Linux/Linux < 4.19
Linux/Linux 4.19
Linux/Linux 4.19.196 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.46 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.12.13 - 5.12.*
Linux/Linux 5.13
Linux/Linux 5.4.128 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 - 3371392c60e2685af30bd4547badd880f5df2b3f
Linux/Linux 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 - 3b491dd593d582ceeb27aa617600712a6bd14246
Linux/Linux 8b7138814f29933898ecd31dfc83e35a30ee69f5 - 4cefa061fc63f4d2dff5ab4083f43857cd7a2335
... and 4 more
Published May 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026